National Theatre Live: Antigone vs Waiting for Jupiter
National Theatre Live: Antigone has the higher audience score (10/10 against 4/10 for Waiting for Jupiter). Waiting for Jupiter is the shorter watch at 23m compared with 1h 32m. National Theatre Live: Antigone is the older of the two (2012 against 2018). Both are drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Waiting for Jupiter| National Theatre Live: Antigone | Waiting for Jupiter | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 4.0/10 |
| Year | 2012 | 2018 |
| Length | 1h 32m | 23m |
| Genres | Drama | Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Polly Findlay | Agathe Riedinger |
| Main cast | Annabel Scholey, Christopher Eccleston, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Alfred Enoch, Jodie Whittaker | Caroline Baehr, Thierry Levaret, Sarah-Megan Allouch, Alexis Manenti, Chloé Piot |
Synopsis
National Theatre Live: Antigone
In the unstable aftermath of a civil war, Creon, the new King of Thebes, asserts his authority by forbidding anyone from honouring the death of the traitor Polyneices. But Antigone, Polyneices' sister, will not obey. When Creon's authority is challenged, a gripping conflict emerges between the power of an individual and the state. Polly Findlay's electric 2012 production brings Sophocles' tragedy into the modern world as a gripping political…
Waiting for Jupiter
Twenty-one-year-old Liane has just learnt that she has been accepted to participate in a reality TV program. Convinced that her real life is about to begin, she gets rid of everything around her in order to radically embrace this great upheaval.
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